Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner was born into a Jewish family in New York City in the 1950s. After graduating from Harvard University in 1976, he went on to teach writing at Princeton University, Arizona State University, and Rockefeller University before being named the Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Weiner received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for The Beak of the Finch, which is his best-known book. He is also the author of Time, Love, Memory, a book about the American physicist Seymour Benzer, and Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality, a scientific take on the search for the Fountain of Youth. Weiner lives in New York City with his wife Deborah Heiligman, a children’s writer who has also published books on the life and times of Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma.